Stealing a Kiss Beneath the Starlight

This is Qin Xuan, Doctor Qin's story from Heartbeat Comes True~

Slow burn, angsty, happy ending. They aren't each other's first love. A playboy turns over a new leaf / unrequited love, but neither has had sex with anyone else w.

On the day a torrential rainstorm hit Beicheng, Qin Xuan and Pei Zhiyue broke up. Qin Xuan, the wealthy young master of the capital's social circles who was usually so hard to read, made a harsh remark for the first time. His voice was low, his expression cold as he said, "Pei Zhiyue, do you think I can't live without you?"

The young woman said nothing. She only lifted her stubborn gaze to him and replied, "Doctor Qin, we're not right for each other."

It was the first time she'd called him Doctor Qin, but it wouldn't be the last.

She pulled her suitcase, opened the car door, got in, and never looked back.

*

The first time she met Qin Xuan, she was on her way to school when she fell. He picked her up and took her to the hospital, carefully looking after her the whole way until her wound had been bandaged.

Pei Zhiyue gazed at his strikingly refined profile and thought, Maybe this is love at first sight.

When she asked for his contact information, he held a Parker pen in his hand and chuckled softly. "Little girl, I don't go after minors."

Pei Zhiyue thought that once she was a little older, maybe he would notice her and fall for her.

But the second time they met, it was because her cousin brought him home to visit their grandmother. He stood beneath a wisteria trellis, turned his head, and gave her a gentle smile. Then he lifted her schoolbag and teased, "Fancy meeting you again, little one."

Pei Zhiyue timidly looked up and saw her cousin come out of the house and take his arm affectionately.

She pressed her lips together. After a long while, the words finally slipped out: "Hello, big brother."

The young girl had red eyes then, but Qin Xuan only thought she was throwing a childish fit, upset that he had called her young.

Back then, Qin Xuan had moved through countless romances without getting attached. As a young master of the capital's social circles, he was born a darling of the heavens. Countless girls liked him, and his relationships were always brief, like the wind. He never lingered for anyone.

Qin Xuan never imagined that the frightened girl who had run away from him had feelings for him.

Nor could he have imagined that years later, she would become the one who haunted his thoughts and kept him awake at night.

*

When Pei Zhiyue was sixteen, she wrote a letter.

In it, she wrote: "I pray to the kind-hearted god that the person I love will look my way, too."

Later, he did more than just look her way.

At the end of a snowy night in Beicheng, the man knelt on one knee in the depths of a narrow alley and slipped a ring onto her finger.

Snow blanketed the world, but all Pei Zhiyue could hear was his low, hoarse plea.

"Zhuyue, marry me."

His voice was quiet as he kissed her fingertips and said, "You don't need the gods to answer you, my Mrs. Qin."

He would make all her wishes come true for her.

"I can hear the wind beside my ear, but I can't escape your face."

"The more I try to leave, the closer I move toward your life."

--"Angkor Wat"

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